Preface -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Problem -- 1.2. The Text and Corpus -- 1.3. Importance of the Study -- 1.4. Related Research -- 1.5. Previous Studies of The Peterborough Chronicle -- 1.6. Edition of the Text -- 1.7. General Procedure of the Analysis -- 1.8. Explanation of Basic Concepts used in the Description -- 1.9. The Presentation of the Data -- 2. Primary Clause-Level Tagmemes -- 2.1. The Subject Tagmeme -- 2.2. The Predicator Tagmeme -- 2.3. The Direct Object Tagmeme -- 2.4. The Object Complement Tagmeme -- 2.5. The Indirect Object Tagmeme -- 2.6. The Subject Complement Tagmeme -- 2.7. General Conclusions -- 3. The Order of Primary Clause-Level Tagmemes -- 3.1. Group 1 (Subject and Predicator) -- 3.2. Group 2 (Subject, Predicator, and Direct Object) -- 3.3 Group 3 (Subject, Predicator, and Subject Complement) -- 3.4 Group 4 (Subject, Predicator, Indirect Object, and Direct Object) -- 3.5. Subjectless Clause Patterns -- 3.6. The Coordinated Predication Patterns -- 3.7. The Relative Order of Primary Tagmemes in Combinations of Two -- 3.8. General Conclusions -- 4. Secondary Clause-Level Tagmemes -- 4.1. Description of the Clause-Level Adverbial Tagmemes -- 4.2. Linear Ordering of Adverbial Tagmemes -- 4.3. General Conclusions -- 5. Modified-Head Phrases -- 5.1. Part I: The Adjectival Modifiers -- 5.2. The Modified-Noun Phrase -- 5.3. Other Modified-Head Phrases -- 5.4. Special Modifying Relationships -- 5.5. Part II: The Adverbial Modifiers -- 5.6. The Modified-Verb Phrase -- 5.7. Other Modified-Head Phrases -- 5.8. General Conclusions -- 6. The Relationship and Joining of Clauses -- 6.1. Types and Levels of Dependent Clauses -- 6.2. Functions of Dependent Clauses -- 6.3. The Parenthetical Clause -- 6.4. Coordination of T-units -- 6.5. Parataxis -- 6.6. Correlation -- 6.7. General Conclusions.

7. Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.